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confusion over encouraged flavor of 'weirdcore' aesthetic versus verboten flavor of 'weirdcore' aesthetic

A topic by Legion created Jun 25, 2024 Views: 74
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look I'm probably overthinking this, overthinking things IS a specialty of mine, but I went to the reddit to try and understand what "weirdcore" is and I understand less than I did before I poked around the reddit. this "explainer" image only increased my confusion. 

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so I get that the developers are filled with an unfathomable hatred for weirdcore images that involve 'OCs' with disembodied objects for heads. cool, gotcha. but is the presence of too many eyeballs where there should not be eyeballs and 'biblically accurate [_________] (whatevers)' also frowned upon. Because I gotta be honest, outside of those elements of "mainstream weirdcore" (an odd phrase to even type/say), I'm not at all sure what actually unites "((("""true"""))) weirdcore as an aesthetic. I understand what liminal spaces are on a deeper than memetic level, but I am very confused by this good versus bad weirdcore dichotomy.